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Bring out the major differences between the Classical Realism of Hans Morgenthau and the Neorealism of Kenneth Waltz.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Realism studies the world as it is, not as it ought to be. Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations (1948; its six principles were added in 1954) defined the school for a generation. Kenneth N. Waltz's Theory of International Politics (1979) rebuilt it. Both see rational states in a world of power, but they disagree…

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